"The opera must make people weep, shudder, die through singing."
45. I puritani (Vincenzo Bellini)
Category: French opera
43. La Navarraise (Jules Massenet)
La Navarraise is like a super-concentrated essence of opera; it lasts barely 40 minutes, but runs the gamut of emotions, has a great role for a soprano, and ends on a devastating curtain.
39. Ivan IV (Georges Bizet)
Bizet's unfinished opera about Ivan the Terrible.
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